RECOVERING

10.19.12

Malala ‘Not Out of the Woods’

Philippe Lopez

Having come out of a coma yesterday, Malala Yousafzai is “not out of the woods,” doctors told Reuters on Friday. The 14-year-old is able to communicate through writing and appears to have maintained memory recall, and she stood up for the first time since she was shot in the head by the Taliban last week and then flown to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in England for treatment. The hospital’s medical director said she is not talking yet because she’s still recovering from a procedure that allowed her to breathe through a tube in her neck.